Atheist man opens fire on Muslim students at UNC Chapel Hill

[Marokai Backbeat]

Alcon, you have very quickly become one of my favorite posters. I have nothing more to add that you haven't except to also say this is, of course, incredibly sad and f**ked up.

[Marokai Backbeat]

As an atheist, I can say with honestly that a lot of atheists are extremely Islamophobic and like to use their blanket philosophy of "I'm against all religious extremism" to say vile and xenophobic things about Muslims. I'm sure there are atheists on this forum who have said "lol Islam is the religion of peace" as a comment on any number of articles on terrorist attacks.

A pithy sarcastic comment like that is "vile and xenophobic" now?

[Marokai Backbeat]

So no, there's nothing vile and xenophobic about sarcastic comments like that, just the people you have in your head that say them.